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KEMI Sends out $27 Million in Dividend Checks 08/23/2010
State: KY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Wcc
Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Co. (KEMI) has sent out nearly $27 million in dividend checks to more than 35,000 policyholders and is in the process of tracking down employers due another $2 million, officials of the state-chartered workers' compensation carrier said Friday....Read More
 
 
Kirby Vacuum Distributors Cited for Misclassifying Workers 07/23/2010
State: MA | Segment: EAST | 0
Twelve Massachusetts distributors of Kirby vacuum cleaners have been cited for misclassifying workers as independent contractors and for violation of child-labor and minimum-wage laws, state Attorney general Martha Coakley announced Wednesday.Coakley said in a press release the distribut...Read More
 
 
Kenneth Birch Appointed to Board of Magistrates 07/09/2010
State: MI | Segment: CENTRAL | 0
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm has appointed Kenneth Birch of Holt to the Worker's Compensation Board of Magistrates for a term expiring Jan. 26, 2013.Birch, a former magistrate, succeeds the late Michael Harris on the board.The Board of Magistrates operates within the D...Read More
 
 
Keenan Hires Colen as Senior VP for Public Agencies 07/08/2010
By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
State: CA | Segment: WEST | 0
Keenan & Associates announced Wednesday that Bernard Colen has joined the California brokerage and consulting firm as senior vice president in the public agencies property and casualty practice.Colen has nearly 40 years of experience in workers' compensation, both as a consultant...Read More
 
 
Kentucky Approves Mining Increases Based on Health Care Reform 05/21/2010
State: KY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Wcc
Kentucky has become the first of the nation's major coal-mining states to approve a recommendation by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) to increase loss costs based on a black lung provision in Congress' health care reform bill.Insurance Commissioner Sharon P....Read More
 
 
KEMI Releases More Details on $30.8M Dividend 05/04/2010
By: Jim Sams (Senior Editor)
State: KY | Segment: EAST | 0 | Popular with Wcc
Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance on Monday posted details on the $30.8 million dividend it promised to deliver policyholders after state lawmakers threatened legislation to force the state-chartered carrier to refund some money to its customers. The KEMI board of directors a...Read More
 
 
KEMI Announces 20% Dividend Under Pressure from State Senate 03/29/2010
State: KY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Wcc
By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau Chiefmike@workcompcentral.comThe board of directors of Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Co. (KEMI) voted late Thursday night to issue a $30.8 million dividend – the first...Read More
 
 
Kofman Appointed to First Full Term 03/29/2010
State: ME | Segment: EAST | 0
The Maine Senate has confirmed state Insurance Superintendent Mila Kofman to her first full term in office.Gov. John E. Baldacci nominated Kofman to the post earlier this month. She became superintendent in 2008 after deputy superintendent Eric Cioppa had served as interim insurance chie...Read More
 
 
Kentucky Poised to End Three-Year Debate over AMA Guides 03/25/2010
State: KY | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal
By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefThe Kentucky Legislature appears poised to end its three-year debate over switching the workers' compensation system to the Sixth Edition of the American Medical Association (AMA) Gui...Read More
 
 
KEMI Dividend Mandate Clears Senate Committee 03/19/2010
State: KY | Segment: EAST | 0
State lawmakers' attempt to force Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Co. (KEMI) to return about $62 million of its $154 million surplus to policyholders cleared a Senate panel Wednesday, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.Senate Bill 214, filed by Senate Majority Leader Rober...Read More
 
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